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NEWS: Lack of Afro’s ‘I’m Here Now’ out on vinyl: sharp Stax soul and crispest breaks on wax

EXETER’S Adam Gibbons has this absolute mastery of classic soul warmth, production, arrangement, truth, that would give Mark Ronson pause for thought. Don’t believe me? Take a listen to “Wait…

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SEE: A Certain Ratio – ‘Yo Yo Gi’: fantastic funk futurism sees ACR in fine form; album and live stream

A CERTAIN RATIO have shared a new track, “Yo Yo Gi”, from their eagerly anticipated new album, ACR Loco – and it comes with a dazzling video; watch below. Culled…

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SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: Pennine baggy-psychesters waylay us again; album news

MOSSLEY – pronounced Mozzley – high up where the Pennines lurch high and wild, right out on the north-eastern fringes of Greater Manchester, has spawned a looming, mist-blurred collective known…

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Track: Didirri releases dreamy single ‘The Critic’ and announces news of EP ‘Sold for Sale’

Australia’s Didirri is a singular and prodigious talent – we have long followed his career in Backseat Mafia, reviewing his earlier singles – layered, melodic and refreshing indie tracks. Didirri…

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TRACK: Hear Mort Garson’s ‘This Is My Beloved’: Sacred Bones to release quartet of albums

THE WORLD of 60s’ and early 70s’ electronica was full of fascinating, creative mavericks: scientists, polymaths, creatives, all deeply fascinated by the weird things that were happening with the pure…

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TRACK: Martha Fffion – ‘Nights To Forget’: intelligent pop about those evenings you wished you hadn’t

GLASGOW-based, Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay, better known to acoustic pop aficionados as Martha Ffion and whose 2018 LP Sunday Best was packed to the rafters with sparkling and confessional songwriting,…

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NEWS: MOTORHEAD ALBUM ACE OF SPADES GETS EXCITING 40th ANNIVERSARY REBIRTH

Upon its release in 1980, the ‘Ace Of Spades’ album was nothing short of a game changer for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything…

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NEWS: Super Furries’ Cian Ciaran marks Hiroshima 75th with six-hour live stream today

AT 4.15AM Japanese time on August 6th, 1945, the world changed forever. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, of the USAF 393d Bombardment Squadron and named after the pilot Colonel…

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NEWS: Live-stream shows from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: UK ‘date’ this Friday

FACED by the reality that any chance of getting some gigs under their belt for 2020 was vanishing like a mirage, Austin, TX guitar deities …And You Will Know Us…

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NEWS: MASTODON TURNS 20 & CELEBRATES WITH RELEASE OF AN UNRELEASED SONG ‘FALLEN TORCHES’

Atlanta hard rock juggernaut Mastodon turns 20 this year! Whilst hard at work on their long awaited ninth full-length album, the band have chosen to celebrating two decades together, by releasing a…

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